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Cat :: Cat (n.) An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat..

Botany Bay :: Botany Bay () A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770..

Bayonet :: Bayonet (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery..

Bay Window :: Bay window () A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window..

Baya :: Baya (n.) The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).

Disembay :: Disembay (v. t.) To clear from a bay.

Tail-bay :: Tail-bay (n.) The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.

Roan :: Roan (a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse..

Bayonet :: Bayonet (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense..

Laurel :: Laurel (n.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay..

Cornered :: Cornered (p. a.) In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.

Bayoneting :: Bayoneting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bayone.

Bay :: Bay (v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back..

Skilling :: Skilling (n.) A bay of a barn; also, a slight addition to a cottage..

Head :: Head (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea..

Bay Leaf :: Bay leaf () See under 3d Bay.

Bay :: Bay (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible..

Bayonet :: Bayonet (v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.

Case-bay :: Case-bay (n.) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.

Embay :: Embay (v. t.) To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.

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